These days every month (actually it’s more like every day) is set aside for at least five different observances. The awareness months range from the helpful such as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (which is in October if you’ve forgotten), to the absurd, such as National Anti-Boredom Month (which is next month, so I guess we should all work really hard to fight boredom in July).

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Unless you’re like me and you’ve had to wear glasses since you first stuck your nose in a book at the age of 4, chances are that a trip to the eye doctor isn’t on your list of must do items each year.

Of course, that probably means you’re in the lucky 25 percent (according to the Vision Council of America) of the American population that doesn’t need some sort of eye correction. But then, it’s also possible that you’re more like my husband who thinks that you don’t need to visit the eye doctor until his glasses break or until prescription changes so obviously that it begins to impede daily life.

In the cover story of the November Atlantic, Kate Bolick declares her liberation from marriage: “It’s time to embrace new ideas about romance and family — and to acknowledge the end of ‘traditional’ marriage as society’s highest ideal.”

The odd thing about “progressive” tropes is their peculiar, static, timeless quality.

For progressives, time stands still. Each new generation is posed as poised to break through taboos that, in truth, vanished long ago.

We’re getting close to Labor Day, a celebration of the men and women who roll up their sleeves and go to work each day. If you’re in the workforce yourself, you can appreciate this recognition of your efforts. And as an investor, you can employ these attributes of the American worker: